Cable-terminal.



F. B. COOK.

CABLE TERMINAL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHBET 1" IN E/VTQR. I

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F. B; COOK.

CABLE TERMINAL.

APPLIOATION FILED mm: 22, 1908.

91 3 254 Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

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FRANK spook.

- CABLE-TERMINAL.

Application filed June 22, 1908. Serial No. 489,785.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it linown that I, Fnxxx B. Coon, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, inthe county of'Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Cable-Terminal, of which the following I is a'specification, reference being had--to the accompanying drawings, illustrating same.

My invention relates to terminal heads for distributing the conductors of electrical calesand connecting such conductors with aerial wires.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide general improvements in such a cable terminal, and to provide. improved means for accommodating the cable and aerial conductors leading to the terminal and for suitably connecting the said conductors together.

Other objects will lie-apparent from the following specification. In the accompanying drawings illustrating my present invention, Figure 1 is a front, elevation of the cable terminal of the inven-' tion, with the front lid or cover removed 5 Fi 2 is a side elevation of the complete, ca%le terminal, with a portion of the box and cover removed to show the interior construction; Fig. 3 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the cable terminal, taken on plane a: r of Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 4 is a longitu-di nal crosssectional view of one of the connection terminals or binding posts used in the cable terminal.

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In the drawings, 1 is. an iron box, 2 is a lid or cover on the front of the box for closing the latter, 3 and 4 are lugs on the top and bottom of the rear portion of the box 1 formounting the whole to a suitable support, 5 5 are openings through the thick bottom portion 6 of the box throughwhich openings the aerial conductors extend into the box 1, and 7 and 8 are openings through the bottom and top portions, respectively, of the box 1, to accommodate the end of the cable entering the box 1. The thick portion 6'on the lower end of the cable terminal is for the purpose of giving considerable length to the onenings 5,5 and thereby preventing rain from blowingup into the compartment 14 of the terminal. If the cable enters the box 1 from the bottom thereof the o ening 7 is preferably supplied with a nozzle 9 for supporting the cable 10, preferably as shown. If the refer to like parts in the Specification of Letters Patent.

located a number of binding PatefitedFeb; 23; Jenn cable is, to enter the box 1 from the top thereof the opening 8 may be supplied with a nozzle for accommodating the cable, o1= the cable may be extended through the opening 8 without a nozzle, as desired. lid 2 is hinged at 11, 11 preferably so that it may be turned upwardly and backwardly' to entirely open the'fro'nt portion of the box 1, the construction being such that the lid 2 will stay in this raised position and not fall down by its own weight.

In the box 1 is mounted a connection-terminal mounting strip or plate 12, by bolts 23,

23, preferably as shown in Fig. 3, so as to di vide the interior portion of the box 1 into two compartments 13 Around the The front as shown,

and 14. This plate 12 is preferably made of asbestos board which is compartment 13 of the box 1 with any suitable insulating compound or material, if desired. The top portion of the box 1 is preferably sloped downwardly toward the rear of the box so as to prevent rain from running toward the latter.

7 In the compartment 14 of the box 1 are posts 18, 18, mounted on the plate 12 by havend 19 forced into a hole in the each being ing its rear plate 12. and Washers 20 for attach ductor to the post 18, the 20 being set out from the plate 12 as shown in Fig. 3 so that the aerial conductors entering the compartment 14 through the holes 5, 5 may be carried between the posts 18,18 and back of the nuts and washers 20, that is, between the latter and the plate 12. This arlng an aerial connuts and washers rangement of the aerial conductors is very" convenient for, attaching same to the binding posts 18, 18, because they are always out of the way and do not interfere with c0nnec-- tions being made by the nuts and'washers 20, 20. Each of the binding posts 18, 18 is provided with a longitudinal hole 22 extending therethrough, through which a cable con ductor 16 may beextended and soldered to the post 18 at the outer end thereof, as shown frontedge ofthe box and into the Each post 18 carries suitable nuts at 21 in Fig. 4. It will readily be seen how, with the aid of these binding osts, the cable conductors are connected witli the aerial conductors. I

The circuit conductors extending through the cable terminal enter the latter from the cable 10, then extend through the compartment 113 and through the openings 22, 22 in the posts 18 18, being soldered to the latter as at 21 in Fig. 4, and then extend from the uts and washers 20, 20 back between the posts. 18 18 and between the nuts and washers 20, 20 and the plate 12, down through the openings 5, 5 in the lower end of the box port1on 1, to the aerial conductors of the system. I do not wish to limit this invention to all of the particular details of construction herein shown, as various modifications may be made in same-without departing from the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim as my invent'on is:

- A cable terminal of the character described comprising a cast box portion having a front Y ;lid or cover, said casting projecting at its 25*10Wer end below the box portion and havin 1 passages through the said projecting en into the box portion for accommo ting aerialconductors, said projecting end preventing rain or moisture from blowing through the said passages'into the box Egrtion, a partition in the box portion divi g the latter into front and rear compartments for aerial and cable conductors respectively,;gi. hollow binding posts carried by the said partition and located in the front compartment, means for accommodating a cable entering the said rear compartment of the box portion, the cable conductors extending through the said partition and throu h the said binding posts and being secure to the forward ends of the said posts by solderflnuts and washers on the sald posts for connecting the aerial conductors thereto, each binding post having a shoulder thereon to position the.

/ FRANK B. COOK.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK R. PARKER, CLARENCE E. Coox. 

